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I'm looking for the latest, stable version of Ubuntu that uses Gnome 2. As much as I understand, newest, stable version - 11.04 - is using Unity... and that's new desktop environment.

Is Unity a Desktop Environment? helped a lot.

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Ubuntu 11.04 is the latest version that uses Gnome 2 (Although this isn't exactly what you want, as you actually are talking about gnome-panel, which 11.04 uses Unity), but this version is no longer supported.

Ubuntu 10.10 is the latest version that uses gnome-panel by default, but this version is no longer supported.

Ubuntu 10.04.2 is the latest LTS release that uses gnome-panel, which is supported until April 2013 (for the Desktop) and April 2015 (for the server)

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  • 11.04 is EOL, so is 10.10. Only 10.04.2 is the latest supported release without Unity by default.
    – Thomas Ward
    Apr 4, 2013 at 21:49
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Ubuntu 11.04 does use Unity by default, but you can change back to Gnome 2/gnome-panel by choosing the Ubuntu Classic Session option in the login screen.

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  • Is it possible to get Gnome 3 on it? Without additional installing maybe?
    – daGrevis
    Jul 12, 2011 at 16:02
  • You can get Gnome 3 on 11.04, although it complete breaks Unity on 11.04 (since it's Gnome 3, not Gnome 2). See this askubuntu.com/questions/22946/…
    – tgm4883
    Jul 12, 2011 at 16:06
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    @daGrevis Please ask that as a seperate question :D
    – Amith KK
    Jul 12, 2011 at 16:20
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You can have the classic look by doing this:

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Ubuntu 10.10 use gnome 2 standard in ubuntu 11.04 you can still switch to claccis.

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you can have 12.04 with Gnome2, here my: enter image description here

here a little guide: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/gnome-classic-in-ubuntu-12-04-its-like-nothing-ever-changed

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  • this is not an answer to the question
    – Tachyons
    Jun 29, 2012 at 6:39
  • Wow wo no.. that's Gnome 3 Classic not Gnome 2 c'mon it says it in the article.. Jun 29, 2012 at 6:49

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